Expected FPS in Starcraft 2

Dont know the exact number, but it will definitely be above playable!

in ultra settings @ 1680x1050, i average 67 FPS in single player

phenom II x4 @ 3.6ghz & GTX460

you'll get more than 67 fps then pacfisit. 5870 is much better card than gtx 460. expect performance around 100fps. not sure about the cpu though

What Resolution?

Without AA


With 4xAA

1920x1080 or 1920x1200. What CPUs are these results with? Or will the graphics card be the bottleneck anyway? With an X6 1090T that is.

Your 1090T is going to be the bottleneck, even at 4.0Ghz a stock I7 will probably perform better.
http://www.techspot.com/review/305-starcraft2-performance/page13.html

SC2 only uses two cores so the extra cores will add little benefit

see the link below

http://www.techspot.com/review/305-starcraft2-performan...

It's times like these that we see the true capabilities of the Intel Nehalem architecture.

I did not quite understand how you can assume that with a basis from these results? X6 is not even there? Did you look at the X4 processors and they perform around the same? I'm not questioning you or being rude, I'm just not very into this  

It is a dual threaded game, you notice the Phenom II X2 and X4 pull the exact same FPS when clocked at 3.8Ghz? It'll be the same for your X6, the extra cores simply aren't used. You'll also see that at 3.8Ghz, Phenom II looses to a stock I7 920, and the extra 200mhz won't make up that large of a difference. The bright side is you could render a video or something in the background while playing Starcraft.  

Haha yeah, the usefullness of that could be questioned   But what about other games like Dirt 2 and Bad Company 2, they do take advantage of additional cores don't they? And does the X6 actually perform noticably better in that situation. And last, in that case, will it be a trend that new games tend to utilise more cores and thus making the X6 a good option for a long-lasting CPU for the next years?

(Pardon my English, not from an English speaking country)

actually Bad Company 2 plays just fine on a fast dual core (E8400+) and most PC games are simply console ports or made for the PC masses. Intel and AMD have both been screaming the sky is falling for dual cores for four years now...they are still viable gaming CPUs even now. By the time you actually need 6 cores for games, the x6 will be ancient history....which in PC terms is like 3+ years....

One more question then   http://www.overclock3d.net/reviews/cpu_mainboard/amd_10...

The X6 performs quite good in these tests? even outperforming an overclocked i7 930? I find this rather confusing, how can these results be explained? Thanks for all of your answers 

  I can't explain those results, just about every review I've seen of every game shows the Phenom II X6 loosing to an I7, or being about equal to it. That review shows it stomping the I7, rather interesting.